Runway
About
Runway was founded in 2018 by Cristobal Valenzuela (CEO), Alejandro Matamala and Anastasis Germanidis, who met at NYU Tisch ITP. It is based in New York City (per Wikipedia) and describes its focus as General World Models. Founders and founding year are per Wikipedia.
Products
- Runway model note: Gen-4.5 video model, GWM-1 and GWM Worlds 2, Characters, Aleph (as listed in that note; dates not verified here).
- Per Wikipedia (secondary): Gen-4.5, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two, Edit Studio, Runway Dev and an iOS app.
- Peers: Kling.
Partnerships
- Reported (Wikipedia, secondary): Lionsgate (2024-09), a custom model reportedly trained on 20,000+ titles; AMC Networks (2025-06), marketing and previsualisation.
Funding (reported; Wikipedia only, not checked against company announcements)
- 2018 USD 2M seed; 2020-12 USD 8.5M Series A; 2021-12 USD 35M Series B; 2022-12 USD 50M Series C
- 2023-06: USD 141M at USD 1.5B (Google, Nvidia, Salesforce); 2025-04: USD 308M at USD 3B+ (General Atlantic); 2026-02: USD 315M at USD 5.3B
Open items
- Funding figures are from Wikipedia only; GWM details not re-verified on runway.com this session.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_(company) (secondary, fetched 2026-10-05)
- https://runway.com/research (accessed 2026-09-30)